They’ve resorted to the usual Catholic tactic of mockery and ridicule to try to turn the tables on the non-Catholics to get the attention off the fact that they’re taking a beating.
There’s simply no way they can justify or reconcile with Catholic church doctrine, their wholesale rejection of the inerrancy and veracity of Scripture.
Viva la Reformation.
AMEN!
Post tenebras lux.
Check out the deceit tucked into the following link, all still operative...
24. The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect. 77. In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship. 15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.
The RCC positions itself counter to the liberty of conscience outlined in Scripture and the freedom of worship promised in the U.S. Constitution.
The Hollywood PR machine has long foisted on the American public the insipid pretense that the papacy is nothing more than Bing Crosby and Barry Fitzgerald.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
"Whoever denies or places in doubt any truth that must be believed with divine and catholic faith, or repudiates the Christian faith as a whole, and does not come to his senses after having been legitimately warned, is to be punished as a heretic...whoever obstinately rejects a teaching that the Roman Pontiff or the College of Bishops, exercising the authentic Magisterium, have set forth to be held definitively, or who affirms what they have condemned as erroneous, and does not retract after having been legitimately warned, is to be punished with an appropriate penalty." -- Pope John Paul II, in his apostolic letter Ad Tuendam Fidem (May 18, 1998.)
Meant to ping you, too.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Actually, Bing Crosby was a very nasty person off screen-much like Andy Griffin is said to be.
But, that aside, it's only a matter of time a musical is written about John Paul II:
Two priests have written a musical about the late pontiff that they hope would burnish his image. It covers the highs and lows of his life, with a little dancing along the way. ...
BTW-This seems like one of those things Alex probably has brought up before. He has that knack. :O)
It appears that the Catholic church has not changed in essence since the days of the Inquisition and that all that’s keeping it in check is the power of Protestantism and civil governments based on Protestantism that prohibit the kind of appalling behavior.
Looking at history since the Reformation bears that out. The most free and prosperous nations to become the strongest the quickest, have tended by far to be overwhelmingly Protestant.
The predominantly Catholic ones have fared better where Catholic saw the fruit of Protestantism and where the Catholic church was forced to loosen its grip to hang onto adherents.